The most painful loss was for the German national team, which in the Group A game with 2:16 (1; 4, 0: 7, 1: 5) conceded last year’s winning Canadians, who played their first match in this tournament.
Three goals and equally successful passes for the Canadian national team were scored by the striker Dylan Cosen, who drafted the National Hockey League (NHL) team Buffalo “Sabers”. Dosons Mersers stood out with 2 + 2, while two goals and a pass at the expense of Alex Nuhuk and Peiton Krebs.
The German national team was scored by Florian Elias and John Jason Peter.
Significantly, the Germans scored 15 shots on the opponents’ goal, while the Canadians were able to score 16 goals with 44 broadcasts.
Canada has won the junior championships for the Germans all 15 times before. During this period, the Canadians scored 91 goals, while the opponents responded with 21 accurate broadcasts.
The German national team has not had an easy time in this tournament, as Covid-19 has been established in the team in advance. 14 players of the German national team went on the field in Saturday’s duel, but nine more are in quarantine.
Canada, Finland and Slovakia have scored three points in Group A, followed by Switzerland, which has failed in the only game, but Germany is in fifth place and fighting without wins.
Meanwhile, Sweden and the USA won devastating victories in Group B.
The Swedes defeated their peers from the Czech Republic in the first match of the group with 7: 1 (1: 1, 3: 0, 3: 0).
Defenders Philip Brober and Viktor Soderström earned three assists in the Swedish team, but Simon Holström earned one less. Jan Misaks scored the only goal for the Czech national team in the 11th minute of the first period, who put his team in the lead at that time.
The Swedish national team has not lost in 53 consecutive matches in the group games, which have been completed in 14 years. The last time the Swedes lost in the group tournament was on New Year’s Eve 2006, when they recognized the superiority of their US peers with 2: 3 overtime.
Meanwhile, the Czech U-20 team last won the Swedes on December 31, 2002. This was followed by Sweden’s 12-game winning streak.
In the second game of this group, the USA defeated Austria in their second match with 11: 0 (1: 0, 6: 0, 4: 0), which took their first match in the tournament.
Matthew Boldy excelled with a “hat-trick”, two goals and equally good passes to Trevor Zegras, but also two more accurate shots at the expense of Brendan Brison.
The United States made a total of 73 shots on the opponents’ goal, while the Austrians responded with ten broadcasts. In the second period, the Americans made 30 shots, but the opponents only two.
Belarus and Slovakia made the least number of shots on the opponents’ goal, which only bothered the goalkeeper against Russia (2000) and Canada (2016) only six times.
In Group B, Russia, Sweden and the USA have gained three points each, which has scored more than the game, while the Czech Republic and Austria are in the fourth and fifth positions, respectively.
The World Junior Hockey League (NHL) Edmonton Oilers will host the World Junior Championships at Rogers Place until January 5.
In the championship, ten teams, divided into two groups of five each, will play a one-round tournament, with the top four entering the quarter-finals, but the fifth-place championship will be over, as none of the teams will leave the elite division this year.
The Latvian junior team played in the highest division for the last time in 2017.
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